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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. Henry Eeles, to the Royal Society, concerning the cause of thunder'

Read 16 November 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/320
Earliest possible date
18 June 1752
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the cause of thunder' from Henry Eeles to the Royal Society, 18 June 1752, L&P/2/320, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_320/letter-of-the-cause-of-thunder-from-henry-eeles-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 December 2024

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